In my Home Assistant quest and simplifying (not sure if that's actually happening) and getting more control (aka less reliant on the cloud and 3rd parties) I've been playing with Zigbee.
Zigbee is quite cool because it's a mesh network. As I used it before with my Philips Hue bulbs, I was eager to expand and play with Zigbee.
I have several bulbs, including: Hue Iris, Hue Go, some random bulb, a reading spot, and Hue Play (3x).
I've finally started working with Home Assistant and while the learning curve has been steep, it's been fun.
I'm going to post some random notes (mostly for myself) on things I discovered, and I need to keep in mind.
For example, I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer.
I've assigned the ESP device to an area: IT cabinet. However, the BLE sensors are scattered across the house (in different areas). Took me a while to figure it out, but you can assign entities to specific areas.
I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer (and I have a few other BLE sensors that I haven't managed to set up yet).
The proxy config can be found here.
Be sure to modify the variables to match whatever you want to do. I'm using static IPs because auto discovery is unreliable (hostname.iot.internal).
You'll also need to add the !secret variables into the secrets.yaml file.
Recently migrated Shan from Windows to an Apple/macOS and every reboot she kept getting "Unable to connect with Autodesk Desktop Licensing Service" when launching AutoCAD on her Mac.
The official bullshit is to reinstall the Licensing Service (why is there even such a thing). But alas, that didn't fix it.
Also updating AutoCad to 2025 (we're barely even in 2024) didn't fix it (but made it work until the next reboot).
